Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1887-01-06
FRIDAY JANUARY 6.

Sale OF WHISKY last week.
An effort is being made by
the stock holders to wrest the NJ
X. & I. Road from the Gould
management.
Relations of European pow.
ers continue SO strained that wal
is anticipated.
The authorities have order.
ed all the gamblers to leave Coun.
Gil Bluffs, Iowa, under pain of q
vigorous prosecution.
The Blair Education bill is
growing in favor, and Sepatol
Blair feels quite confident that
it will pass both houses and be
signed by the President.
Mich feeling has been
aroused against Speaker Carlisle
because of his delay in naming the
committees of the house. 1t is
charged that he might have nam
ed them three days after his cleo
tion, and that through his delay
the work of the session will not
begin till well on toward Febru-
airy.
There is much suppressed
feeling among the employees of the
Gould Southwestern system be-
cause of an order to reduce the
working force 10 per cent. 1t is
claimed that the act is not justified
by the labor situation on the system
but is resorted to as substitute
for cutting down wages. Fourteen
hundred men will be thrown out
of employment.
"A bill has been prepared at
the Interior Department, and has
the Endorsement of the President,
which provides that commission
of five shall be appointed to under
take the work of inducing the
Cheyennes, Arapahoes and one
or two other tribes to remove
farther east in the Indian Terri
tory. The Western part of the
Territory and No Mans Land will
then be opened to settlement and
formed into territory about the
size of Ohio.
The Quincy Wing states, on
what it claims to be good authori-
ty that the great Chicago & North
Western railway is heading for
Quincy and will cross theMississip-
pl at that place, and continue on to
Kansas City. The @. NJ. & P.
will be used if the Northwestern
can obtain a controlling interest
in the road. If not they will
parallel the Q. NJ. & P. to Green
City, and from there will build an
air line of easy grade to Kansas
City. This action of the Chicago
and Northwestern has been
brought about by the Stickney
Syndicate getting hold of the
Diagonal line which the c. N. &
W. wanted and for which they
were negotiating. Terminal facil-
ties have been secured at Kansas
City and all arrangements have
been made to begin work as early
as possible in the spring.
The Macon county papers
have been for some time, and are
yet engaged in the discussion of
the Macon county bonds. The |
have showed up a great many |
things that is right and proper
that the people should know, but |
they have never yet spoken one
word of praise or given the slight
est credit to the one man, who
from the time he entered upon his
official career to the last act of his
official life, fought the issuing of
any and all bonds to railroads. We
presume their reason for not say
ing anything is, because the other
officials of the, then, county court,
are all dead, and it is a commend
able trait of the American people
that they never speak i'll or discuss
he shortcomings of those who |!
nave passed away. However some
'ne must bear the blame of every
wrong act, and as the parties who ,
brought this great burden upon ]
he people of Macon county are all E
lead, it is necessary that living I.
chould ha bod 70 baor +bo